Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?
Yeah, this stank.
Hancock had character at the start of the film, but that slowly faded away by the second half, that just sort of floundered until it ended.
It lacked the humor that comes with a lot of Will Smith's other outings, and it lacks the charisma that usually seeps out of Smith.
It just seemed to fail on every front.
Despite being one of the great films of Will Smith's career, it is a weak and uninteresting film.
I think almost everyone who has seen superhero movies, especially the bigger budget ones, has wondered how it's possible that those heroes are so destructive: in order to eliminate an enemy or a danger, they destroy half a city as collateral damage. This film works precisely on top of that: Hancock is a superhero who doesn't seem to want to be one, and who doesn't know how to deal with it. As a result, and despite being effective at what he does, he is quite destructive and unpopular until the day he gets an image manager.
Although Will Smith is one of those actors that I never really appreciated very much, I have to admit that he did...
I like this movie because it's different from your typical superhero character. He cracks me up to. They have some pretty cool fight scenes in this.